Router inlay box

Here’s a box that I made last year for my grandparents. It’s made entirely from hardwoods: white oak, walnut, sycamore, bog oak and rosewood. The main features of the project are the router inlay on the lid, fretwork on the sides, and the bog oak splines on the corners.

@larson1170 to be honest it was over a year ago, so I cannot remember exactly how it went. But what I can recall is that you need to be really slow/patient when routing because it is easy to go over the lines of the pattern. I may have drilled a shallow entry hole for the bit to sit in to begin with.

Once I had routed out all of the required shapes on the lid, I directly photocopied the wood and used the copies as patterns so that I could cut out the inlay pieces on the scroll saw to fit snugly in the holes.